Cat got your Tongue?

 Happy Valentine's Day Gotham Part 3


LOCATION: GCPD (Gotham City Police Department) 


I reach the roof of the GCPD in a matter of minutes where somebody is waiting for me


"So him too huh?" says cop Rene Montoya


I knew she was one of only a few female cops in the GCPD and therefore the most competent police officer in the GCPD still this town could use more female officers.


"Yeah I'm guessing it's not so great in the GCPD either?" I ask her to which she shakes her head


"Uh huh sadly there aren't too many female cops in Gotham so I'm just holding the fort" we walk inside the GCPD I have to step over several officers as we walk down the hallway but across every desk was a police officer sound asleep. 


<I notice sleazy cop Harvey Bullock slumped over his desk asleep so nothing new there then.> 


"By the way how did you get that message to me?" I ask officer Montoya as she opens a door to the commissioners office


"Oh it wasn't my idea" she replies as I see two familiar faces in the commissioners office 


One of them was dressed neck to toe in a leather cat suit <emphasis on the cat> a bit like mine except a little bit low cut but the pointy cat ears most certainly made this character recognisable 


The other character had a pure white painted face and their skin tight outfit that covered her entire body was black and red with a symmetrical diamond pattern that somewhat reminisced of a character from "commedia dell'arte" as the jester red and black hat and the black mask made this individual very recognizable


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AUTHOURS NOTE:> fun fact Harleen Quinzel adopted the name Harley Quinn based on the character "Harlequin" from a play called "Commedia dell'arte"   


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Harleen Quinzel and Selina Kyle other wise known a Harley Quinn and Cat Woman 


The first was the Jokers girlfriend and ex doctor from Arkham asylum until Joker brainwashed her in to becoming a criminal and the Jokers own personal punching bag 


The second was the most infamous cat burglar in Gotham city and sometime on off love interest of Batman but sometimes her heroic stripes can shine through.  


 "Hi Widow!" Harley says with a quirky little wave 


I can't believe this what are they doing here, two of the biggest female law breakers in Gotham city were sitting in the commissioners office willingly offering assistance when today of all days would probably be the most profitable day in their criminal careers.


Before I can either get a word out Quinn is wailing on the floor practically grasping my legs,


"Widow please tell me you can fix this oh PLEASE! Me and Mr J were meant to rob Valerie's Jewellers tonight you know what that means?"


I look at both Montoya and Kyle and they looked as confused as I was, Harley is now on the floor looking very sorry for herself, she wipes away an invisible tear very dramatically  


"A RING A GODAMN RING YOU HEAR ME!" She yells at the top of her lungs


We all cover our ears as her loud cries continue over a man who doesn't give two damns about her which is the real tragedy here 


"Quinn I think China can hear you" Selina says as Quinn slowly gets up off the floor


"I can't marry him if he's asleep forever and who will be the best man!" Quinn exclaims she was pretty crazy,


I hated the control that the Joker had over her one day I hope she comes to her senses and leaves that clown for the slime that he is after all Quinn was a good woman, but she loved a dangerous man who was less than mutual with his affections .


"Ahem if we can get back to the current problem" Montoya suggests I nod in agreement 


"Right but before we do I need to know Selina why are you here I thought this would be the best day you've ever had" she looks uncomfortable at my question


"No matter what you may think of me I do care not all men are pigs" she was obviously referring to Batman there was a lot of unsaid feelings there, I try not to pry into their relationship because I knew that if she wanted to she could play him like a piano but I can't interfere too much it's Bruce's life after all 


I feel my mobile phone go off in my pocket as my ring tone of "Ring, Ring" begins playing in the background


"What's that?" officer asks as they all look at me, I show them all my phone because that ringtone meant that the call was coming from the Bat cave   


"Hey wait a second what happened to your stingers?" Harley asks


"They've gone into an early retirement" I reply I answer my phone it's Bat Girl hopefully the computer had determined what the toxin is


"Well that's dumb Black Widow without her stingers is like Wonder Woman without her bracelets" I heard Quinn saying in the background


"Bat Girl please tell me that you've found something that going to help us" I ask Bat girl who is rapidly typing on the computer,


"If you're near a computer can you set up a connection to me?" she asks as I login to Commissioner Gordons computer and set up a link with the Bat Computer 


A small image of Bat Girl appears in the corner of the screen and a detailed breakdown of the toxin I examine it toughly but it wasn't like anything I'd ever seen before 


"Hey that comes from a plant" everyone turns around to look at Harley Quinn who was glancing over my shoulder 


"I was a doctor you know" she responds offended at everyone's scepticism


"You were a shrink Harley not a biologist" Selina answers back but if this was a plant based toxin then that could only narrow it down to one culprit 


The third femme fatale of Gotham City and possibly the most dangerous Poison Ivy,


"Have you seen Poison Ivy recently Harley?" I ask Quinn I always knew that Ivy had a bitterness against men but how could she manage something on such a large scale


"I- I Don't know last I heard Ivy had left the city" she replies nervously since fighting your friends is a lot harder than fighting your enemies and over the years Quinn and Ivy had become as close as sisters


<perhaps even closer than sisters but that's none of my business> 


"How on earth could Poison Ivy accomplish something on such a huge scale?" Montoya asks which was exactly what I was thinking Ivy always used plants in her crimes but even so how could she ensure that this Toxin would spread everywhere.


Suddenly I see something bright red in the corner of my eye sitting on an unconscious cops desk a huge bunch of roses and it hit me


"Oh!" I say suddenly coming to realization


"What is it?" Bat Girl asks I go over to the unknown cops table and pick up the roses.


 I smell them and there is an odour that wasn't associated with the flowers and I notice a powder on the petals that had dried up, I show them the flowers


"This is beginning to give me an idea". 


Barbra examines the roses that were sitting in the Bat cave and not much to my surprise they carried the same toxin an exact match to the toxin that was in Bruce's system


"From what I can gather the Toxin assimilated into the air around twelve o'clock this morning but the Toxin only attaches to the male genes and uses the body's natural testosterone and hormones into creating a sleeping drug and it is still replicating" Barbra explains but I was wondering something, something that I hope was not true


"Wait a second if it's still replicating" I say ominously and Barbra knows what I'm getting at


"What!" Harley demands


"If the Toxin keeps replicating in the system of every man then I predict that it will overdose and stop every man's heart in Gotham within a matter of hours" Barbra finishes then Harley falls to her knees


"Noooo! We've got to stop her and save Mister J!" Harley yells, speaking off I wonder where she is hiding him 


I could tell by the look on officer Montoya's face that she too was interested at the Jokers current location as Batman and myself had been tracking him down for the last week now since he escaped from Arkham Asylum but no luck so far but you never know I could kill two birds with one stone.


"And every other man in Gotham yeah screw them!" Montoya declares sarcastically,


I look at the crisp white card on the bouquet it reads;


"Happy Valentine's Day Baby x" In delicate neat gold writing 


Very original, but on the back I recognize the florist "Adam & Eve" it was the same Brand on the flowers in the Bat cave I turn the back of the card to the web cam on the computer


"Hey Bat Girl Snap" I say to the camera Bat Girl smiles because that meant a connection and a place to start. 


Bat Girl boots up the Gotham local Business archives that thankfully Bruce Wayne had full access to


"The Adam & Eve florist opened up around two months ago strangely the owner of the business never declared a name but since they paid in cash up front the tenant holders never asked any questions and the payments for the rent have been paid through several off shore accounts that would take weeks to track back to an owner, however they have been the most successful privately owned business in the last month since they have been selling red roses at a steal price and everyone thought they would sell out of flowers but they never did. You know what this means?" Barbra asks


"Every man in Gotham is a cheap skate" I reply


"Well that too, but this isn't just poison Ivy someone with a lot of resources and money is behind this too" Barbra smiles and whilst that is true the main objective must be to get the antidote to this mess.


A phone suddenly rings in the office which causes everyone to jump Montoya goes to answer it


"Yes" she says there must be a really big emergency because Officer Montoya looks worried 


"I will investigate immediately" she says in to the phone then abruptly hangs up


"The alarm sensors on the vaults in Military Station Bravo just on the out skirts of the city have just gone off they were holding onto plans for a missile launch system for transportation to STAR LABS in central city" she explains but this was making no sense, 


I rub my aching temples as all of these puzzle pieces weren't fitting together it was all giving me a migraine, first every man in Gotham City is cast in to a deep sleep like this is sleeping beauty next super sensitive military bases were getting broken into


"Bat Girl I want you to meet Officer Montoya at the military instillation and stop the thieves, Harley and Selina we are going to go over to Adam & Eves to find out what the hell is going on see if we can have a little chat with Ivy" I tell everyone Harley gives a sarcastic salute


"You're the Boss Widow" Bat Girl says.




Ok this had to be one of my favourite chapters to write just give me my chick flick comedy with all these girls in it and you've got a best seller. So glad to finally bring in Harley Quinn she's the best :) Thank you for reading chapter 19 please leave a comment and a like below xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx


I'm really proud of the edit that I did on the picture above all the art work is By Bruce Timm


#Songs for Chapter 19#


-"Good girls go Bad" by Cobra Starship




-"Where them girls at" by David Guetta, Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj




-"Roar" by Katy Perry




-"Power" by Little Mix




-"Girls just Want to have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper


Click on the external link below for the playlist available on Spotify 



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